Pleasant Quotes

“These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:

Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

Status is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.

...Now, I tell you, these... things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long life...

[Ittha Sutta, AN 5.43]”
― Buddha

“If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in five minutes, then I've probably died a very brave and heroic death. Oh and don't touch the radio--I've got it tuned right where I want it and I don't want you messing that up.”
― Derek Landy, Playing with Fire

“The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car.”
― Derek Landy, The End of the World

“The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!”
― Mary Kate

“It's peculiar to me,' she said, 'that everybody pays so much attention to living and so little to dying. Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me--who want to die but haven't got the guts.”
― Horace McCoy

“Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take me back to her.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“My unpleasant past has given me wisdom to build a pleasant Future.”
― Sheldon Pereira

“If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Some things are so good or pleasurable that you wouldn’t wish them on your worst enemy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“Always just pleasant. Never overexcited. Never, in fact, excited at all. Just pleasant, which is simply another word for nice.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

“Cow-watching turned out to be a mildly pleasant duty.”
― Christian M. Frank, Catholic, Reluctantly

“Humor makes a lasting impression of great moments; awkward or pleasant”
― Val Uchendu

“Su modestia y su anhelo de agradar eran tan duraderos que muchas noches comenzó por defensa y acabó por confesión, siempre al servicio de las inclinaciones del pueblo.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Cuentos completos

“I view social media as a Sunday newspaper that is pleasant to read on a lazy morning.”
― Steven Magee

“A good deed has to do with the results, altruism with the intentions. The good deed is, of course, what matters for the person in need or for society. After all pure altruism is rare and without a kind of benefit for the benefactor – even if that is just a pleasant feeling – charity would be almost impossible.”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“In both pleasant experience producing karma effect (shata vedaniya) and unpleasant experience producing karma effect (ashata-vedaniya), there is indeed a constant inner burning (antardaah, inner suffering). But because one has moorcha (worldly engrossment/fascination due to deluded worldly view), one does not notice it; he remains in a state similar to being unconscious.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“If you want to know from your past failure,
Take a look at you in the present moment.
If you want for you to see a brighter future,
Look at yourself more pleasant as content!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“If sex were not pleasant, then population, animals etc. would gradually decrease and go extinct!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“যৌনতা যদি আনন্দময় না হতো তবে জনসংখ্যা, জীবজন্তু ইত্যাদি ক্রমশ কমতে কমতে বিলুপ্ত হয়ে যেতো!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Empathy and the best attitude is the ability that makes the ways to grow, love and become stronger, and leads the journey of life significant and pleasant.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“In our personal life also, there are many important tasks that are not pleasant. For example, every person knows the importance of fitness in leading a healthy and happy life. One easy way to keep fit is to do a morning walk or workout regularly. These activities are hardly pleasant in the beginning. However, if you follow the routine of doing morning walk and exercise, you gradually train your mind to take the important-but-unpleasant task first and let other interesting activities of the day wait till your difficult but important job is over. If you follow this regime, you will find that even the other daily activities throughout the day become more enjoyable.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Praying is a pleasant hobby.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Traveling is one of the greatest pleasure and its gentle breeze is one of the greatest pleasant”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“But Lucy!" exclaimed her sister Anna. "He was wounded fighting for his king and country at Waterloo. You can hardly expect him to be pleasant.”
― Catherine Lloyd, Death Comes to the Village

“With you, life would be a pleasant dream,
a dream where all alone, just two, we are,
outside of which, this pleasant dream,
nothing left that’s true we’d have to spar;
yet my life without you wanes,
so I’m left with just my dreams,
each dream I live - there all is well, though, -
my dreams without a flame like embers glow…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“A smile keeps the face round. It makes a perfect gradient in time that transforms the rigid into the pleasing.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes